Hocus Pocus

After you have read one of Kurt Vonnegut's gleefully pessimistic novels, his words go on colouring your world for a long time afterwards... not to read him would be to miss out on lessons that need to be learned about the age we live in

Sunday Times

It is all done with voice. Vonnegut is a master of the first-person, manic-depressive stand-up

Observer

Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country

New York Times Book Review

He is a satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion, a cynic who wants to believe

New York Times

Hocus Pocus is, of course, extremely funny. Jokes are told, deadpan and whiplash-sharp; neat, compulsive little anecdotes with stings in the tail jostle one another down the page

Sunday Correspondent

Vonnegut's best novel in years-funny and prophetic...something special

The Nation

One of the best living American writers

Graham Greene

One of the master alchemists of modern American fiction

Sunday Times

Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country

New York Times Book Review

Hocus Pocus is, of course, extremely funny. Jokes are told, deadpan and whiplash-sharp; neat, compulsive little anecdotes with stings in the tail jostle one another down the page

Sunday Correspondent

Vonnegut's best novel in years-funny and prophetic...something special

The Nation